Functional Area Interrelationships

Understanding strategic management in today’s highly competitive business environment plays a large role in organizational success. Business owners and managers must develop an action plan that includes collaboration among its partners to achieve organizational goals. Huffman Trucking is a thriving business that employs a fully functional organizational structure by having different departments that coincide with one another. During this analysis, we will determine the use of lateral collaboration and vertical collaboration within the organization, and prepare an action plan to use lateral and vertical collaboration. We will identify the key stakeholders and their roles needed to achieve the organizational goals, and recommend the collaborative interactions among the key stakeholders to facilitate the organization’s success. Huffman Trucking has been in business since 1936 and launched operations with one tractor-trailer. The operation grew so rapidly that by 1945 after World War II the material haulers grew to 16 tractors and 36 trailers. Today Huffman employs more than 1300 personnel along with maintaining their own equipment that has amped up to 800 tractors and 2100 trailers. Along with maintaining all of their own equipment, Huffman Trucking uses three centrally located hubs within the respective regions. The locations of these hubs are in Los Angeles St. Louis, and Bayonne. Along with these hubs for centralization, the corporate office remains in its original location in Cleveland, Ohio. From day one, K. Huffman had a vision of becoming profitable not only for himself but also for all of his employees and the company’s stakeholders. These ideals and expectations are set in Huffman Trucking’s…...

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Kudler Fine Foods is a neighbourhood upmarket specialty food store with the excellent domestic and imported fares. The company currently has three locations in the San Diego metropolitan area, La Jolla, Del Mar, and Encinitas. The stores consist of about roughly 8,000 square feet of retail space in the most stylish of shopping centers. Their selection includes the finest cheese, wine, fresh produce, pastry products, meats, seafood, and condiments. By stating the primary reasons of the organization’s existence, this paper will analyze the reason for the type of organizational structure, identify and explain the steps of the collaboration process, provide an example of the use of lateral and vertical collaboration, and identify the key stakeholders and the collaborative interactions among them in order to achieve success.
Organization’s Existence
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...Kudler Fine Foods
Passionate about gourmet cooking and frustrated at having to travel all over town to gather the ingredients for one simple meal, Kathy Kudler decided to open her own gourmet food shop. Her vision was to create one store that would stock a wide selection of the freshest ingredients as well as all of the tools a gourmet cook could ever want. Kathy was certain that combining the convenience of one-stop shopping with reasonable prices would be a recipe for success.
Kathy's vision became a reality in 1998 with the opening of the La Jolla store. Her concept was an immediate success and in two years Kudler's expanded with the opening of the Del Mar location. Our latest store opened in Encinitas in 2003 and we are already looking for just the right spot for another shop!
Kudler Fine Foods is committed to providing our customers with the finest selection of the very best foods and wines so that your culinary visions can come true. Thank you for your patronage and giving us the opportunity to serve you.
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Kudler Fine Foods uses Anne Shousha as its legal counsel. Anne is Kathy Kudler’s sister-in-law and is a successful tax attorney working with a major accounting firm in San Diego, CA.
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